92.7 WOBM » Long Branch http://wobm.com Ocean County's Hometown Station! Sun, 19 May 2013 00:49:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Manchester Man Charged with Murdering Point Pleasant Victim http://wobm.com/manchester-man-charged-with-murdering-point-pleasant-victim/ http://wobm.com/manchester-man-charged-with-murdering-point-pleasant-victim/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:44:10 +0000 Tom Mongelli http://wobm.com/?p=223818 The trail of a suspect in the murder of a Point Pleasant man whose body was found in a Long Branch backyard leads investigators to Manchester.

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]]> http://wobm.com/manchester-man-charged-with-murdering-point-pleasant-victim/feed/ 0 Alan Bienkowski (Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office) New Jersey Friends Of Clearwater Festival Coming To Long Branch http://wobm.com/new-jersey-friends-of-clearwater-festival-coming-to-long-branch/ http://wobm.com/new-jersey-friends-of-clearwater-festival-coming-to-long-branch/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 05:18:24 +0000 Ilya Hemlin http://wobm.com/?p=221480 One of the state’s most iconic festivals celebrating nature and conservation will be coming to a new destination by the water. The New Jersey Friends of Clearwater’s annual Clearwater Festival will be held on the city’s boardwalk September 15th.

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]]> http://wobm.com/new-jersey-friends-of-clearwater-festival-coming-to-long-branch/feed/ 0 (left to right) Lynn Humphrey, Long Branch Administrator; Mayor Adam Schneider, NJFC President Ed Dlugosz, Joellen Lundy, site administrator for the festival (Ilya Hemlin; Townsquare Media NJ) Monmouth Murder Defendants Drop Courtroom Bombshell http://wobm.com/monmouth-murder-defendants-drop-courtroom-bombshell/ http://wobm.com/monmouth-murder-defendants-drop-courtroom-bombshell/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 10:12:53 +0000 Tom Mongelli http://wobm.com/?p=220210 The ex-wife and in-laws of a Manchester man, whose body was found in a torched car in Long Branch in 2009, today pleaded guilty to roles in his murder.

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]]> http://wobm.com/monmouth-murder-defendants-drop-courtroom-bombshell/feed/ 0 Monmouth County Courthouse (Ilya Hemlin, Townsquare Media NJ) Long Branch SWAT Team Ends Three Hour Armed Standoff http://wobm.com/long-branch-swat-team-ends-three-hour-armed-standoff/ http://wobm.com/long-branch-swat-team-ends-three-hour-armed-standoff/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:03:09 +0000 Rosetta Key http://nj1015.com/long-branch-swat-team-ends-three-hour-armed-standoff/ What began as a domestic dispute involving a man fighting with his Father, ends in a three-hour standoff in Long Branch. 

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]]> http://wobm.com/long-branch-swat-team-ends-three-hour-armed-standoff/feed/ 0 Standoff in Long Branch (The Link News via Facebook) Two Found Dead Inside Long Branch Home Identified http://wobm.com/double-homicide-in-long-branch/ http://wobm.com/double-homicide-in-long-branch/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:52:08 +0000 Jason Allentoff http://nj1015.com/?p=244959 Two bodies were found inside a Long Branch home Monday afternoon. 

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]]> http://wobm.com/double-homicide-in-long-branch/feed/ 0 Long Branch home where two bodies were found Monday afternoon (WNBC TV) One Dead In Long Branch Fire http://wobm.com/one-dead-in-long-branch-fire/ http://wobm.com/one-dead-in-long-branch-fire/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:40:12 +0000 Jason Allentoff http://nj1015.com/?p=221723 An early morning fire in Long Branch keeps has left one dead. 

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]]> http://wobm.com/one-dead-in-long-branch-fire/feed/ 0 New FEMA Funding Targets Monmouth, LBI http://wobm.com/new-fema-funding-targets-monmouth-lbi/ http://wobm.com/new-fema-funding-targets-monmouth-lbi/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:20:01 +0000 Tom Mongelli http://wobm.com/?p=156929 Five coastal Monmouth communities and Beach Haven on Long Beach Island are in line for $12,900,000 in storm cleanup costs through the second round of grants by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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]]> http://wobm.com/new-fema-funding-targets-monmouth-lbi/feed/ 0 Missing Long Branch Child Found http://wobm.com/search-is-on-for-missing-long-branch-child/ http://wobm.com/search-is-on-for-missing-long-branch-child/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:33:58 +0000 Matthew White http://nj1015.com/?p=175374 Long Branch Police and State Police are asking for the public's help to locate a 10 year old juvenile, who has gone missing.

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]]> http://wobm.com/search-is-on-for-missing-long-branch-child/feed/ 0 Lizbeth Vasquez (Long Branch Police) Police Respond to Train Stations in Monmouth http://wobm.com/police-respond-to-train-stations-in-monmouth/ http://wobm.com/police-respond-to-train-stations-in-monmouth/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:12:38 +0000 Rosetta Key http://wobm.com/?p=111669 Intoxicated and unruly concert goers keep police and emergency medical responders in several Monmouth County communities busy at train stations along the northeast corridor.

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]]> http://wobm.com/police-respond-to-train-stations-in-monmouth/feed/ 0 Aberdeen-Matawan Station, flickr Gang Activity Suspected In Red Bank Robberies http://wobm.com/gang-activity-suspected-in-red-bank-robberies/ http://wobm.com/gang-activity-suspected-in-red-bank-robberies/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:37:37 +0000 Tom Mongelli http://wobm.com/?p=106619 Four men suspected of having ties to the Bloods are among five under arrest in connection with a pair of savage robberies in Red Bank.

Rounded up last Thursday and Friday were Lamar Hicks, 27, of Long Branch; Kadean Lane, 20, of Tinton Falls; Jason Hall, 20, and Dashaun Clayton, 21, of Red Bank; and also Luchretia Jackson, 26, also of Red Bank

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]]> http://wobm.com/gang-activity-suspected-in-red-bank-robberies/feed/ 0 Flickr User Ian Britton Flags to be Flown Half Staff Thursday For N.J. Soldier http://wobm.com/flags-to-be-flown-half-staff-thursday-for-n-j-soldier/ http://wobm.com/flags-to-be-flown-half-staff-thursday-for-n-j-soldier/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 08:38:34 +0000 Rosetta Key http://wobm.com/?p=83149 Flags will fly half-staff through out the state Thursday to honor a New Jersey soldier who grew up in Long Branch. 

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]]> http://wobm.com/flags-to-be-flown-half-staff-thursday-for-n-j-soldier/feed/ 0 U.S. Flag Half Staff, by Mark Wilson Getty Images What's The Future For Long Branch's West End Property? http://wobm.com/whats-the-future-for-long-branchs-west-end-property/ http://wobm.com/whats-the-future-for-long-branchs-west-end-property/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:14:18 +0000 Ilya Hemlin http://wobm.com/?p=53392  

After a fire in the West End section of Long Branch decimated several residential and commercial buildings, the question is what will be the future of property both for residents and visitors?

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]]> http://wobm.com/whats-the-future-for-long-branchs-west-end-property/feed/ 0 Firefighters putting out fire in Long Branch's West End area (photo Ilya Hemlin Townsquare Media NJ) Asbury Park Mourns A Loss http://wobm.com/asbury-park-school-district-mourns-a-sudden-loss/ http://wobm.com/asbury-park-school-district-mourns-a-sudden-loss/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:14:22 +0000 Janet Fried http://wobm.com/?p=3916  

37 year old assistant Asbury Park football coach John Key died early Sunday morning when he was hit by a car on the parkway after checking on occupants in a car he had collided with.

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